Lamp-chimney holder



(No Model.)

F. HANSON. LAMP CHIMNEY HOLDER.

No. 410,548. Patented Sept. 3, 1889.

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UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

FREEMAN HANSON, OF BAR MILLS, ASSIGNOR OF ONE-HALF TO CHARLES B. IIARMON, OF BIDDEFORD, MAINE.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 410,548, dated September 3, 1889. Application filed February 2, 1889. Serial No. 298,465. (No model.)

To aZZ whom it may concern.-

Be it known that I, FREEMAN HANSON, a citizen of the United States, residing at Bar Mills, in the county of York and State of Maine, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Lamp-Chimney Holders; andI do hereby declare the following to be a full, clear, and exact description of the invention, such as will enable others skilled in the art to which it appertains to make and use the same.

Figure l is a front elevation of the lamp having the chimney-holder attached. Fig. 2 is a perspective view of the holder detached. Fig. 3 is a detail showing end of movable or hinged part of yoke slotted. Fig. 4 is a detail in perspective of top of holder, &c.

This invention has for its object to provide a device or means for holding the chimney steady and firm in position over the burner when the lamp is being moved or handled; and the novelty consists in the construction of the holder and the combination of its parts as a whole, and in the combination of the holder, so made, with the lamp, all as will now be more fully set out and explained, reference being had to the accompanying drawings.

In the drawings, A denotes a lamp of any usual or ordinary construction; 13, the chimney. This is seated, as usual, upon the burner B, which has the usual springs 1), adapted to fit upon the lower end of the chimney and hold it in position against the influence of the draft or any slight motion of the body of the lamp. This means for holding the chimney answers very Well while the lamp is steady, as upon a table or stand; but when the lamp is carried about the altitude of the chimney creates an overweight atthe top and always causes a tilting of the chimney on its seat, and this oftentimes results in the dislodgment of the chimney and its consequent breakage and the smoking of the lighted wick, and sometimes even in very disagreeable consequences. To obviate all these troubles, and at the same time provide a simple, cheap, easilyapplied means for the purpose, is the object of my invent-ion. This consists in the chimney-holder now to be de scribed.

About the neck of the burner is placed a metal yoke 0, made in annular form so as to fit nicely under and be secured to the chimney-seat, or about the neck of the lamp, one part 0 being hinged to the other for this purpose. The thumb-screw (Z, passing through the free end of the part 0, will secure this to the projecting part c of the other part of the yoke. It is a very easy matter to make the yoke fit any-sized burner or lamp-neck, as by lengthening the screw (Z, or by making the part c flexible and slotting the end Where the screw passes through. Instead of hinging part 0, there may be at that point a thumbscrew, like as at the other end, and of a similar construction. In the projecting ends 0 c of the yoke are vertical sockets 0 in which are fixed the lower ends of the guard Wires or standards E; but if these ends are soldered to ends of the yoke. or in any other merely mechanical way secured, then the desired connection will be obtained. The guards will thus come on opposite sides of the chimney, and are designed to extend above its bulge. To the upper end of each is secured the horizontal wire piece e, in form of a segment of a circle. \Vhen in position, the separate and bent ends e of the two members of the guard will embrace, but not necessarily entirely surround, the chimney, and the holder will elastically fit upon a chimney of any size, and danger of breaking the chimney by too close contact of the Wire upon the chimney will also be obviated. Thus the chimney will be securely held in position even while the lamp is being moved or carried about. The chimney can be easily placed upon or removed from the burner, as the guards are made of wire and are very flexible. This attachment does not in the least interfere with the radiation of the light-rays; nor does it in the least mar the appearance of the lamp.

IVhile I prefer to make the pieces 0 as I have shown, it is obvious that if the upper ends of the standards are merely flattened out there will be bearing-surfaces at this point, which will in a very considerable degree accomplish the ends I have in view.

I am aware that it is not new to provide a metal chimney-holder made in the form of a ring and supported 011 a collar about the lampneck; and I do not claim, broadly, such a device. nor a detachable collar about a lampneck to sustain a shade-holder.

Having now described my invention, What I consider new, and wish to have protected by 5 Letters Patent, is

1. The combination, in a lamp-chimney holder, of the detachable yoke 0, having a hinged part c, the thumb-screw d, and guards E, each provided at its upper end with a hori- IO zontal wire piece e, substantially as and for the purposes set forth.

2. In a lamp-chimney holder, a detachable and adjustable yoke adapted to fit a lampneck, and carrying vertical and elastic standards, each of which has at'its upper end a horizontal curved piece to fit upon a lampchimney, the several parts combined and operating substantially as set forth.

In testimony whereof I affix my signature in presence of two witnesses.

FREEMAN HANSON. Witnesses:

G. B. NEARPAss, BENJ. F. ANDREWS. 

